NEW: Two teens carjack and crash car, police say

By NATHAN CRABBESun staff writer

Sunday

Jun 24, 2007 at 5:14 PM

A Gainesville man was arrested early Sunday for a carjacking that started at an ATM and ended in a crash.

Leonard Lee Jones, 18, allegedly took part in a robbery about 10:20 p.m. at First Credit Union, 412 E. University Ave. Jones and a juvenile accomplice allegedly took the money and keys of man withdrawing money from an ATM, Gainesville police reported.

Police say the duo then fled in the man's 1967 Buick. Officers later spotted the car in the 3400 block of W. University Avenue, pursuing the car on various roads in west Gainesville before it crashed into a building at NW 39th Avenue.

Jones fled the car and was caught a short distance away, police reported. Jones was charged with carjacking, armed robbery and resisting arrest. He was being held Sunday at the Alachua County Jail without bond.

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